If it's hot enough in the schools to melt the dried wax from the floors, you might want to cancel school just because of the danger to students from the heat. But as usual, schools don't care about suffering students, they just care about lawsuits.

I was on the summer cleaning crew for a couple of years at our local schools. If the temps or humidity get too high the new wax just won't cure right. One year we had to re-do a room after the desks sank into the floor following a very hot day. That was a major pain in the ass.

Anderson's Pooper:I was on the summer cleaning crew for a couple of years at our local schools. If the temps or humidity get too high the new wax just won't cure right. One year we had to re-do a room after the desks sank into the floor following a very hot day. That was a major pain in the ass.

I wish there was a pic of this. "Sank?" I need a better description because now I'm just imagining entire desks melting into the floor.

Walker:If it's hot enough in the schools to melt the dried wax from the floors, you might want to cancel school just because of the danger to students from the heat. But as usual, schools don't care about suffering students, they just care about lawsuits.

We've already cancelled school two days this year because of heat. (Some of our buildings aren't air conditioned, because Minnesota.)

Anderson's Pooper: I was on the summer cleaning crew for a couple of years at our local schools. If the temps or humidity get too high the new wax just won't cure right. One year we had to re-do a room after the desks sank into the floor following a very hot day. That was a major pain in the ass.

I wish there was a pic of this. "Sank?" I need a better description because now I'm just imagining entire desks melting into the floor.

I got distracted, but I was going to say: since I just drove half an hour each way to my HTML lab only to have it canceled due to weather (lightning knocked out the power), I'm getting a kick out of this thread.

ohsoferrety:It was 92F yesterday, and felt like 98F. Schools here don't have air conditioning and are super-insulated to trap heat.

/doesn't even wanna think about the smell

The school I used to work for made up their 5 snowdays during the school year specifically to avoid extending the school year into the summer heat (and lack of adequate AC). As far as I'm aware, they were in session yesterday.

Walker:If it's hot enough in the schools to melt the dried wax from the floors, you might want to cancel school just because of the danger to students from the heat. But as usual, schools don't care about suffering students, they just care about lawsuits.

I remember in high school they didnt allow water bottles then towards the end of one year we had a string of 90+ days and most of the school wasnt air conditioned, they reversed the water bottle ban when the girls started dropping like flies.

I was at a Chinese buffet a few months ago where they had varnished the floor for some reason the evening before. The floor was covered in a sticky amber goo that wasn't quite dry yet, making your shoes stick. A rather heavy lady in flip-flops was attempting to maneuver amongst the various buffet counters. It was like watching a drawn out live-action version of the Monty Python silly walks sketch.

Walker:If it's hot enough in the schools to melt the dried wax from the floors, you might want to cancel school just because of the danger to students from the heat. But as usual, schools don't care about suffering students, they just care about lawsuits.

Just in case you recently woke up from a 30yr comaSchools are no longer run by EducatorsThey are run by lawyers, insurrance co's, and AW elected officials

Same thing happened at my son's elementary school yesterday. It was 95+ and grossly humid; apparently the walls started sweating and the floors got slick. It also aggravated a mold problem that caused the gym floor to swell and buckle.

TheSelphie:Anderson's Pooper: I was on the summer cleaning crew for a couple of years at our local schools. If the temps or humidity get too high the new wax just won't cure right. One year we had to re-do a room after the desks sank into the floor following a very hot day. That was a major pain in the ass.

I wish there was a pic of this. "Sank?" I need a better description because now I'm just imagining entire desks melting into the floor.

After re-waxing for the summer, we would leave the rooms empty to let the floor cure for a week or so. After putting the desks and chairs back in we had a heat wave which re-softened the new wax and every bit of furniture sank through to the bare tiles. The wax then re-hardened over the feet of the desks and chairs. When we discovered it there was much profanity.

theFword:Genju: Wish I could find a good Night Court picture as a reference. :(

I know the one you're looking for, Dan walking into the courtroom and does a back flip on Art's waxed floor , shot pause mid flip.

Yeah. Art had some problem and takes it out on the floor of the courtroom with a wax buffer. The final scene everyone is trying to keep on their feet sliding around and Dan walks in all cheerful and unknowing. I laughed so hard as a kid seeing that. Pausing in mid air to roll the credits was genius.

I used to wax commercial floors in the 90's. The secret (that evidently these people don't know is to wax at night and then buff/burnish the floors 24hrs later. It prevents the melting, even in 90% humidity and actual triple-digit temps. We did the floors in a coal-fired power-plant this way. It looked beautiful until they opened the rail car sized doors (to get a breeze in the building) and the coal dust blew in..

Floor wax isn't really even slippery; television has lied to you. It's the stuff that removes it that is slippery, the wax itself is kind of tacky.

Valkryie01:I used to wax commercial floors in the 90's. The secret (that evidently these people don't know is to wax at night and then buff/burnish the floors 24hrs later. It prevents the melting, even in 90% humidity and actual triple-digit temps. We did the floors in a coal-fired power-plant this way. It looked beautiful until they opened the rail car sized doors (to get a breeze in the building) and the coal dust blew in..

A lot of schools use a different type of wax now that doesn't require sealing. The advantage is it's a LOT easier to remove, plus it's thinner so wax doesn't pool in spots, you just apply six layers instead of two. Then you only have to completely strip the floor every three years instead of every year. Plus it stays cleaner - every six months you buff off a couple of layers, then every year apply a few more. The important thing is air conditioning, because IIRC the new wax had a lower melting point.

Anderson's Pooper:TheSelphie: Anderson's Pooper: I was on the summer cleaning crew for a couple of years at our local schools. If the temps or humidity get too high the new wax just won't cure right. One year we had to re-do a room after the desks sank into the floor following a very hot day. That was a major pain in the ass.

I wish there was a pic of this. "Sank?" I need a better description because now I'm just imagining entire desks melting into the floor.

After re-waxing for the summer, we would leave the rooms empty to let the floor cure for a week or so. After putting the desks and chairs back in we had a heat wave which re-softened the new wax and every bit of furniture sank through to the bare tiles. The wax then re-hardened over the feet of the desks and chairs. When we discovered it there was much profanity.